Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation - Rilegato

Johnston, John

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ISBN 10: 080185704X ISBN 13: 9780801857041

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

This text describes how a new sort of fractilized realism has redefined thought itself - from the High Modernist "stream of consciousness" into what the machine psychologist Daniel Dennet refers to as "multiple drafts" or "circuits" operating concurrently in the human brain. In a series of close readings, the author traces how such a viral influx of information into human consciousness has been replicated in works by Thomas Pynchon ("Gravity's Rainbow" and "Vineland"), Joseph McElroy ("Lookout Cartridge"), William Gaddis ("J.R."), Don DeLillo ("Libra") and William Gibson ("Necromancer").

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Recensione

"Making thoughtful use of Deleuze, Guattari, and even Baudrillard, Johnston offers a learned yet clear analysis; this volume will become indispensable to college and university collections of literary criticism." -- Choice

L'autore

John Johnston teaches in the department of English at Emory University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 080185704X
• ISBN 13: 9780801857041
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 307